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December 13, 2022 National Commentaries
A View from the US

President Joseph Biden played a prominent leadership role at the summit of the COP-27 in Egypt, the ASEAN and ASEAN-led regional summits in Cambodia, and the G20 summit […]

Robert Sutter

Economic Relations, Foreign relations
January 29, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Implications for Asian Regionalism and Late Development

In September 2013, President Xi Jinping, while visiting Kazakhstan, announced the new “Silk Road Economic Belt” initiative. In October 2013, during his visit to Indonesia, Xi proposed to […]

Min Ye

Asian Regionalism, Economic Relations, New Silk Road Strategy, One Belt One Road, Trans-Pacific Partnership
January 25, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario I

For a quarter century after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Far East (RFE) has been caught between Moscow’s failed promises, bureaucratic barriers of a local […]

Gilbert Rozman

Economic Relations, Russian Far East, Sino-Russian Relations
January 25, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario I

The Russian Far East (RFE) constitutes both an asset and a liability for Russia. Stretching from east of Lake Baikal to the shores of the Pacific Ocean, this […]

Artyom Lukin

Economic Relations, Russian Far East
December 23, 2015 Special Forum
Mongolia Hangs in the Balance: Political Choices and Economic Realities

Year 2015 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of Mongolia’s democratic revolution. Ever since it escaped the protective embrace of its northern neighbor, Mongolia maintained an astute foreign policy, pursuing […]

Sergey Radchenko

Economic Relations, Good Neighbor policy, Khalkin Gol Battle of 1939, Neutrality, Regionalism, third neighbor policy
December 18, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: China (December 2015)

No indications were found in Chinese publications of realist thinking about how to resolve security challenges such as the threatening North Korean military build-up or the increasingly confrontational […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

Asian values, CJK summit, East Asian Community, Economic Relations, One Belt One Road, One Road", Regionalism
December 10, 2015 Open Forum
India’s National Identity and Its Impact on Security Policy under Modi

The consensus on India’s national identity has been slowly fragmenting over the last twenty-five years, especially since the emergence of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in 1998 […]

Deepa M. Ollapally

Economic Relations, Modi, National identity, Nationalist-globalist
December 1, 2015 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario for Modi’s India “Acts East”

The domestic record of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is mixed. According to Pew, 87 percent of Indians have a favorable opinion of their prime minister, a level […]

Daniel Twining

Act East Policy, Economic Relations, One Belt One Road, Regionalism
October 23, 2015 Open Forum
Japan and the TPP Conclusion: Regional Order, Negotiations, and Domestic Adjustment

It took five and half years for 12 member states to reach general agreement over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which in encompassing 40 percent of the global economy […]

Terada Takashi*

China, Economic Relations, FTAAP, Regionalism, TPP
October 7, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (October 2015)

The shadow of history hung over Japan in the late summer as Abe’s statement was debated, the seventieth anniversary of the war’s end passed on August 15, and […]

Editorial Staff

Economic Relations, History Wars, National security, North Korea, Post-Cold War, ROK-Sino alliance, Russo-Sino alliance